OECD Workshop - "Anti-spam Toolkit: a multi-stakeholder, multilayered approach" - Speakers’ bios

Latest update : 24th October 2006

Jean-Jacques Sahel, Head of International Communications Policy, Department of Trade and Industry, United Kingdom; Observer, London Action Plan (LAP). Jean-Jacques Sahel leads the UK’s International Communications policy and represents UK interests in a number of international fora dealing with telecommunications and the information economy. He is particularly active on the issue of spam, and at the OECD, ITU and the WTO; he was also recently one of the UK negotiators to the UN’s World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Jean-Jacques was a Vice Chair of the OECD Anti-Spam Task Force (2004-2006), and is the current Chair of the OECD Working Party on the Information Economy.

Dimitri Ypsilanti is Head of the Communication Infrastructures and Services Policy unit at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry. Mr. Ypsilanti’s work has included telecommunication economic and policy analysis in a range of areas including trade in telecommunication services, regulatory reform, convergence and comparative analysis of telecommunication performance among OECD countries. Mr. Ypsilanti was also responsible for the OECD’s Task Force on Spam.

Andrew Maurer is currently Director of the Security Strategy section in the Australian Department of Communications, Information Technology and Arts. Andrew was one of the principal architects of the Australian Spam Act. His policy responsibilities have included a variety of other online security and internet governance issues. Australia chaired the OECD Task Force on Spam, and contributed significantly to its work.

Suresh Ramasubramanian is manager of antispam operations at Outblaze, and coordinator of the Asia Pacific Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email, a group that does antispam technical and policy capacity building in the asia pacific region. He has been an active campaigner against spam for the last eight years. Suresh contributed to the work of the OECD Task Force on spam with the paper "Spam in developing countries".

Laila Zouak est actuellement chef du projet sur la Confiance Numérique et exerce ses fonctions au sein de l’Entité Prospective et Nouvelles Technologies à l’Agence Nationale de Réglementation des Télécommunications (ANRT). Mme Zouak a réalisé plusieurs etudes sur: la cryptologie, le droit de la concurrence; Internet et le droit; le contrat d’interconnexion; la protection de la vie privée, la cybercriminalité; la responsabilité des fournisseurs sur Internet; le Spam; et la Confiance Numérique.

Huang Chengqing, Secretary General, Internet Society of China (ISC), China.

Jonathan Curtis is the Chairman of the Board of Directors for The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG). MAAWG members represent over 750 Million E-mailboxes world-wide. The group focuses on building best practices and white papers for e-mail senders and receivers to restore confidence and trust in messaging. Jonathan was part of a team that lead the Industry Canada Spam Task Force in writing the Best Practices for Internet Service Providers and Other Network Providers. MAAWG contributed to the work of the OECD Task Force on Spam.

Robert Shaw is the deputy director of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Strategy and Policy Unit (SPU), where he is responsible for identifying emerging technical, policy and regulatory issues in the information and communications technology environment. Mr Shaw represents ITU in numerous national, regional and global forums and activities. He has authored and presented numerous papers at conferences around the world. During the last few years, Mr. Shaw has been involved extensively in the preparation and follow-up activities to the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Mr Shaw is also responsible for the ITU Cybersecurity and Countering Spam projects.

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